Monday, November 04, 2013

If the German and French governments – and the German and French people – are so pleased to learn of how their privacy is being systematically assaulted by a foreign power over which they exert no influence, shouldn't they be offering asylum to the person who exposed it all, rather than ignoring or rejecting his pleas to have his basic political rights protected, and thus leaving him vulnerable to being imprisoned for decades by the US government?
Aside from the treaty obligations these nations have to protect the basic political rights of human beings from persecution, how can they simultaneously express outrage over these exposed invasions while turning their back on the person who risked his liberty and even life to bring them to light?

You start with no pieces and as the game opens, you build lots of weak
little ships. Their physical size means they don’t take much material
and print quickly. That fire power buys you enough time to invest in
building stronger big ships. These might take upwards of 15 minutes to
build, but choose carefully, you’ll be blocking your production queue.
With your 3D printer behind a sheet of cardboard, your opponent knows
that you are are building, and for how long you’ve been building, but
not what you are building. The whirr of your stepper motors give
tantalizing hints of your strategy. Of course, you’ll be able to cancel
production mid-way for an incomplete downgraded/vulnerable piece, like
the partially constructed Death Star.